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"Helmut Giese" <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote in message
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> I found the function GetMenuItemRect which looks promising

That will only tell you the screen coordinates of a particular menu item
that is visible onscreen, but you still can't get the HWND for that item.
Plus, the call requires you to already know ahead of time the HWND of the
parent window and the HMENU of the menu that the item belongs to.

> I have to admit that I am still fighting to come to grips with
> menus, and it's not clear who is going to win.

What EXACTLY are you trying to accomplish in the first place?

> Hm, I want to add some kind of tooltip to any menu a user selects,

Menus don't have tooltips.  They only have hints, which are not the same
thing.

> I'd better find out where the currently active menu is situated on the
screen.

There are no API functions for finding the active menu.  The only way to
know which menu is active is if you are displaying the menu yourself to
begin with.  If you are not, then there is nothing available to tell you
which menu of which external application is active, if any.


Gambit